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Explore #40: Cambridge Military Hospital (maternity ward), Aldershot, Hampshire – March 2014

April 6, 2014

Hospitals & Asylums, Military Sites, United Kingdom

After a night of breathtaking views in great company on the Kings Reach Tower climb it was time to make the middle-of-the-night drive solo down to Aldershot for my next target – Cambridge Military Hospital (or CMH to its friends). It was a surreal experience coming down from the adrenaline high of earlier in the night and driving around an almost deserted M25 at about 3.45am – at one point I must have driven for over a minute without seeing…

Explore #27: St. John’s Asylum, Bracebridge Heath, Lincolnshire – January 2014

January 25, 2014

Adam X

Hospitals & Asylums, United Kingdom

This was a flying visit (in and out in about 30 minutes) at the end of a long day of exploring with Unexposed Exploration. We nearly didn’t bother doing this explore as we were both utterly exhausted (Matthew actually took two attempts to get over the fence on the way out, which is pretty much unheard of!), but I wanted to give the site a quick recce and get a shot of its famous split staircase. The site is very…

Explore #25: Father Hudson’s Society (St Gerards Hospital), Coleshill, Birmingham – December 2013

January 3, 2014

Adam X

Churches and religious, Hospitals & Asylums, United Kingdom

This was a quick explore with Dora P, squeezed in between visits to friends and family after Christmas. It was a revisit to the Father Hudson’s complex of buildings in Coleshill following our previous visit to St Mary’s nursing home in September 2013. A brief history: The Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society for the Protection of Homeless and Friendless Catholic Children was established in 1902 with Father Hudson as its first Secretary and Administrator. Father Hudson remained in Coleshill from 1898…